Europe

  • snowden qe is the answer not eurobonds

    snowden qe is the answer not eurobonds

    Stephen Snowden says that the eurobond ship has sailed and that printing money is the solution to the European debt crisis.

  • lets hope Merkel makes the right decision

    lets hope Merkel makes the right decision

    Jeff Keen urges Chancellor Angela Merkel to make the right decision and put Europe security ahead of German domestic policy.

  • pa analysis - germany in no position to leave emu

    pa analysis – germany in no position to leave emu

    In a worrying development of the eurozone debt crisis today an auction of German bonds failed to attract enough bids for the 6bn on offer, proving Merkel is as much in the mire as the rest of ’em.

  • beware the cds that doesnt pay out on default

    beware the cds that doesnt pay out on default

    Tim Cockerill questions the real value of some sovereign credit default swaps while urging investors to look closely at corporate CDS that only pay out on some, not all tiers of debt.

  • time for the ecb to sprinkle its fairy dust

    time for the ecb to sprinkle its fairy dust

    Once upon a time, in a kingdom not so far from here, there was a group of chums who thought it a great idea to strengthen their friendship through a shared currency.

  • qe from the ecb would cause constitutional crisis

    qe from the ecb would cause constitutional crisis

    Max King suggests investors are right to be sceptical about the outcomes of the recent eurozone crisis meetings but there are still plenty of investment opportunities to come.

  • european deal sees greek haircut

    european deal sees greek haircut

    After 11 hour negotiations following months of conversations, a number of agreements have been reached to help reduce eurozone sovereign debt.

  • henderson follows jupiter to join feifa

    henderson follows jupiter to join feifa

    Henderson Global Investors has become the latest UK-based investment company to partner with FEIFA, following Jupiter’s announcement last week.

  • markets move on merest hint of european debt plan

    markets move on merest hint of european debt plan

    Stock markets rose today on the back of little being agreed at the Brussels summit so imagine what investors in Europe could see once a comprehensive plan to resolve Europe’s debt crisis is put in place.

  • Markets rise on merest hint of European plan

    Markets rise on merest hint of European plan

    European stock markets rose this morning on some news that not much had been agreed at the weekend’s summit in Brussels so imagine how markets could react when there is a full-blown plan in place.

  • eurozone debt plan falters

    eurozone debt plan falters

    Europe’s political leaders failed to agree the detail of a plan to resolve the region’s debt crisis at the weekend’s summit, with a further meeting scheduled for Wednesday (26 October).

  • mandelson: eurozone needs surveillance with bite

    mandelson: eurozone needs surveillance with bite

    The eurozone needs to adopt a hard-line of invasive centralised control, or surveillance with bite, according to former EU Trade Commissioner Lord Mandelson.